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* make guix-daemon nice
@ 2016-07-23 11:25 Vincent Legoll
  2016-07-23 15:17 ` Leo Famulari
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From: Vincent Legoll @ 2016-07-23 11:25 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: help-guix

Hello,

is there a way to configure the guix-daemon with a nice
value so that the background build processes don't make
the system unusable ?

-- 
Vincent Legoll

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* Re: make guix-daemon nice
  2016-07-23 11:25 make guix-daemon nice Vincent Legoll
@ 2016-07-23 15:17 ` Leo Famulari
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Leo Famulari @ 2016-07-23 15:17 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Vincent Legoll; +Cc: help-guix

On Sat, Jul 23, 2016 at 01:25:20PM +0200, Vincent Legoll wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> is there a way to configure the guix-daemon with a nice
> value so that the background build processes don't make
> the system unusable ?

This isn't `nice`, but the daemon does take the argument '--cores',
which you can use to limit the number of CPU cores used by the daemon.

My experience on spinning disks is that the true bottle-neck is disk
I/O, so I've used `ionice` when starting the guix-daemon with systemd.

I don't know how to make that happen on GuixSD.

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